In a sweet spot, in one of the Western States, lives little Annie Gale. Not long ago, she was led to embrace Christ as her Saviour. The news of her conversion soon spread through the place.
One day a friend called on her father, and said, “It’s all nonsense for your Annie to think she. has been converted, she’s just like a little angel always: I don’t believe in religion making her better, she’s good enough before. If Dan Hunter, now, could be turned around and made a Christian of, I’d believe in it.”
Annie heard the conversation, and her heart beat with pity for poor Dan; she knew him to be one of the worst and vilest of characters. Impelled with love for his soul, she went to his wretched dwelling, and began to talk to him in tender tones about Jesus, and God’s love to the chief of sinners. After referring to her own conversion, she asked him if he was not a sinner, and if he did not need the same Saviour whom she had found? Poor old Dan’s heart was touched; he wept, he fell upon his knees, and cried out, “Lord, ha’ mercy on the worst of sinners.”
God heard that earnest, penitent cry; and Annie left the old man praising the Lord who could save a wretch like him. It was Dan’s business now to tell to all, the story of God’s love. He would say, “It’s the same gospel, the very same gospel that so blessed little Annie Gale; you wouldn’t think it, but the same Lord which blessed little children, saves the chief of sinners. Jesus casts out none”—Selected.
ML 10/29/1899